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Libros antiguos y modernos

Burton, Isabel.

AEI. Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel.

London, William Mullan & Son, 1879.,

7500,00 €

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(Wien, Austria)

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Autor
Burton, Isabel.
Editores
London, William Mullan & Son, 1879.
Materia
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

8vo. VIII, 488 pp. With coloured frontispiece map and 12 plates. Original dark grey decorated cloth with bevelled edges, ruled and lettered in silver and gold. First edition. - Lady Burton's second book, detailing a journey made with her husband Sir Richard Francis Burton to India via Arabia and Egypt between 1875 and 1876. Although the work is predominantly focused on India, there is a chapter devoted to Jeddah and some notes on Trieste, where this particular voyage began. - Provenance: Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, with the author's presentation inscription on the half-title: "The Duchess of Somerset with affecti[onate] love from Isabel Burton / 21 Feb 1879". The beautiful Jane Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1809-84), was the granddaughter of the Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. - Neat restoration to extremities and inner hinges. A fine association copy. - Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 108. OCLC 64763306.
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